History Post-confederation (1867-)
Celebrating Canada
Commemorations, Anniversaries, and National Symbols
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2018
- Category
- Post-Confederation (1867-), General, Canadian, Urban, Essays
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442649804
- Publish Date
- Dec 2016
- List Price
- $103.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442627130
- Publish Date
- Dec 2016
- List Price
- $49.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442649811
- Publish Date
- Feb 2018
- List Price
- $111.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442627147
- Publish Date
- Feb 2018
- List Price
- $49.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442621565
- Publish Date
- Feb 2018
- List Price
- $39.95
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Description
Popular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canada, and also provide opportunities for people to challenge the pre-existing or dominant conceptions of the country. Volume 2 of Celebrating Canada continues the scholarly debate about commemoration and national identity. Raymond B. Blake and Matthew Hayday bring together emerging and established scholars to consider key moments in Canadian history when major anniversaries of Canada’s political, social, or cultural development were celebrated.
The contributors to this volume capture the multiple and multi-layered meanings of belonging in the Canadian experience, investigate various attempts at shaping and re-shaping identities, and explore episodes of groups resisting or participating in the identity-formation process. By considering the small voices and those on the margins of Canada’s many commemorative anniversaries, the contributors to Celebrating Canada reveal how important it is to think not only about anniversary moments but also about what they can tell us about our history and the shifting function of nationalism.
About the authors
Raymond B. Blake is Professor of History at the University of Regina and formerly Director of the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy. His books include Trajectories of Rural Life: New Perspectives on Rural Canada, co-edited with Andrew Nurse (2003), and Canadians at Last: Canada Integrates Newfoundland as a Province (1994 and 2004).
Raymond B. Blake's profile page
Matthew Hayday is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.
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